Transcript

09/16/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Drew Billion-Armond bringing it to you from headquarters, Fox Sports
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Speaker 1: Radio 920, Milwaukee 1070, Madison, everywhere on the iHeart app,
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Speaker 1: streaming live, Facebook X, and YouTube. We were all up
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Speaker 1: watching the celebration last night. We might be moving a
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Speaker 1: little slow today, might be a little foggy, but we
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Speaker 1: didn't wake up with our clothes reeking of champagne. Hunter
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Speaker 1: Baumgart did, and he joins us now live from his
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Speaker 1: hotel room in Pittsburgh. Hunter, what was it like, you
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Speaker 1: becoming a veteran at covering these celebrations? What was last
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Speaker 1: night like for you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm incredibly lucky that it has become regular in,
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Speaker 2: in my coverage of the brewers here winning, you know,
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Speaker 2: for the five years. Yeah. You can be covering the Rockies.
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Speaker 2: That's no, it's exactly right. And every time you walk
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Speaker 2: out of one of those celebrations, you're like, you never know.
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Speaker 2: Like if there's going to be another one, you don't,
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Speaker 2: you don't come into this season. It's like, okay, are
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Speaker 2: they going to, you're going to have another one. So
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Speaker 2: you definitely enjoy it as much as you can. Definitely
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Speaker 2: did last night. You know, I, I feel like I
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Speaker 2: have been a little better in the last couple years
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Speaker 2: at avoiding getting absolutely doused. I know, you know, it's
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Speaker 2: part of it a little bit. You know, you do
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Speaker 2: obviously get sprayed throughout, but I've been able to, yeah,
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Speaker 2: not totally get splashed with champagne. But I did, you know,
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Speaker 2: take a shower when I got home and everything. Just
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Speaker 2: wanted to make sure I didn't, because you do smell
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Speaker 2: like it when you get home.
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Speaker 3: Oh, for sure. Now, two-parter, just the party police. Not police,
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Speaker 3: just somebody. major FOMO and stuff like that's happening. Um,
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Speaker 3: who had the most fun? Who, who was clearly having
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Speaker 3: the most fun slash. What that means is who got
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Speaker 3: drunkest in your, in your bowl, just easiest to, clear
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Speaker 3: eyes for 40 minutes slash Hunter. When did they go
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Speaker 3: to the buckets of water? Because I just love that.
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Speaker 3: You could hear Yellich mentioned it with Sophia about 15
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Speaker 3: minutes into, he's like, I think we need more beer,
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Speaker 3: more whiskey, more beer, more whiskey channel, a little stone
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Speaker 3: cold there at the moment, but it felt like they said,
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Speaker 3: we're kind of out of great tasting light beer for Miller.
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Speaker 3: So somebody just get some buckets of water that we
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Speaker 3: can dump on each other.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is– well, the first question, I think Trevor
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Speaker 2: McGill loves to have some fun. I'll tell you that much.
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Speaker 2: He is a– he'll start the party and keep the
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Speaker 2: party going, no doubt about that.
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Speaker 1: He's got a lot of room for it to go.
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Speaker 3: That frame has got a lot of room for the
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Speaker 3: BAC to fill out too.
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Speaker 2: That's fair.
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Speaker 4: Totally.
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Speaker 2: So he likes to have fun. And then, yeah, the
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Speaker 2: water usually starts– and they did this last year too.
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Speaker 2: It starts, I don't know, maybe– Yeah, 20 minutes in,
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Speaker 2: because what they do is they probably celebrate for 15,
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Speaker 2: 20 minutes, and they go out, they take the picture
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Speaker 2: on the field, and then they come back in. And
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Speaker 2: when they came back in is when they started doing
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Speaker 2: the water. And everybody from the PR staff to the
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Speaker 2: different players, and William Contreras is the one that started.
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Speaker 2: William Contreras also very much finding different ways to definitely...
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Speaker 2: You know, just have some fun last night. I know
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Speaker 2: the video you've probably seen of him taking the hose
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Speaker 2: from the Pirates grounds crew and then spraying the entire
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Speaker 2: team after their team photo. So he was finding different
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Speaker 2: ways to get water involved last night. No doubt about it.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, that starts. And then, boy, that looks absolutely
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Speaker 2: freezing because it's like ice water, too. So it's like
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Speaker 2: there's like ice in it. And it's like one of those.
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Speaker 2: You know, when they did the ice bucket challenge.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say, they're doing the ALS ice
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Speaker 3: bucket challenge.
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Speaker 1: Or any post-game interview after a victory.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: But it was interesting because usually that's Garrett Mitchell.
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Speaker 3: And Garrett Mitchell's like, hey, man, I'm going to have
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Speaker 3: a couple of cold beers because I'm about to be
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Speaker 3: a dad. I'm not going to be having a lot
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Speaker 3: of time to be able to do this. So I
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Speaker 3: like that he deflected that and let Wild Bill take over.
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Speaker 5: Does Vogelbach have more fun than any coach ever had?
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Speaker 5: I mean, he's like, he's one of the players, basically.
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Speaker 5: That was my first question because when I saw him,
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Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, he thinks he's still... This is like
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Speaker 5: the guy that is going... This is Stifler going back
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Speaker 5: to the high school party. Thinking he's still one of
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Speaker 5: the guys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he did definitely. That's a good point. He was definitely...
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Speaker 2: And look, he was hanging by Yelly and Woody. His
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Speaker 2: old teammates. On the team when he was there. He
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Speaker 2: was a part of that 21 team. So, yeah, really...
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Speaker 2: really cool for him as well to be his first
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Speaker 2: year as a coach here to celebrate it. I know
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Speaker 2: he was obviously with the pirates as well last year.
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Speaker 2: So maybe that means a little more to him as well.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, he was definitely enjoying it.
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Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart joining us courtesy of import minded, your trusted
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Speaker 1: source for auto care, 27th street, just North of eight 94, uh, Hunter, I'm,
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Speaker 1: I'm wondering because it was an, a two, two act
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Speaker 1: play last night post game, because you had guys, uh,
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Speaker 1: kind of like in the tunnel or on the field,
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Speaker 1: and then you weren't allowed in because they were watching
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Speaker 1: the end of the Cubs-Braves game with the plastic up
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Speaker 1: on the lockers and all that stuff. So what was
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Speaker 1: that like? What were those conversations like when they hauled
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Speaker 1: players out away from the TV and brought them out
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Speaker 1: to you guys?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was exactly like last year. Because in St.
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Speaker 2: Louis last year, the Brewers ended up losing. The magic
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Speaker 2: number was one. Brewers ended up losing, and then they needed...
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Speaker 2: the Cubs to lose, they did. And so, but that
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Speaker 2: took about, I don't know, 30 minutes last year. It was,
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Speaker 2: it was a long time, maybe 40, 30, 45 minutes.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they, they, they took it because the Cubs
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Speaker 2: had started an hour later. We had to wait longer.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, what they did was they're like, you know,
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Speaker 2: we'll bring out a couple of players just to talk
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Speaker 2: about the game and talk about the possibility of the clinch.
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Speaker 2: We talked to Ms. After his start, we talked to
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Speaker 2: Joey Ortiz. Yeah, just outside the clubhouse there. Yeah, and
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Speaker 2: then we just waited. Then we all kind of stood there,
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Speaker 2: watched the Cubs game, and waited until that game was over.
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Speaker 2: You could hear the loud cheer erupt when Drake Baldwin
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Speaker 2: hit that one out. And we saw it first outside,
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Speaker 2: so we're like, oh, let's see how the clubhouse reacts.
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Speaker 2: And then they went bonkers, and then you could feel it,
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Speaker 2: that this was okay, this was going to happen. you
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Speaker 2: saw the champagne pulled into the clubhouse, maybe bottom of
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Speaker 2: the eighth or so where they loaded it in.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And then they put the tarps up and, and off
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Speaker 2: they went, but yeah, that is, it's different obviously than, Hey,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's especially the last couple of years that,
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Speaker 2: that has been it where it's, they don't necessarily celebrate
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Speaker 2: right away on the field, right? If they're, if their
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Speaker 2: magic number was one last night and they would have won,
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Speaker 2: they probably would all, you know, jumped around the mound
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Speaker 2: and things like that and then headed into the clubhouse
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Speaker 2: for the celebration. But, They had to wait for the
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Speaker 2: Cubs results and it didn't matter how it was going
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Speaker 2: to happen. You know, they, they were excited to celebrate.
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Speaker 1: Brewers tradition. Yeah, that's fair. Have to watch another game
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Speaker 1: to then pop the corks. It seems like more often
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Speaker 1: than not, that has been the case. Hunter is a
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Speaker 1: first time visitor to Pittsburgh. What did you think of
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Speaker 1: PNC park? A lot of people go visit there from
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin and come away and say, that's a beautiful place.
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Speaker 1: I love the city. Love walking over the Clemente bridge.
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Speaker 1: You're there on a special night. Brewers clinch on Roberto
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Speaker 1: Clemente night. There's also the flashback that everybody talked about.
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Speaker 1: It was, that's where their string of, 12 straight losing
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Speaker 1: seasons ended with a game of victory in Pittsburgh. So
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Speaker 1: what was your experience like in Pittsburgh? And can we
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Speaker 1: get you to come home and save money for the
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Speaker 1: next round now? Or what's your plan?
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Speaker 2: Right. I am going to stay throughout the series. So
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Speaker 2: we'll still provide coverage here and see how the guys
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Speaker 2: are feeling today as they come back from a clinch night.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, really cool. PNC, awesome. Yeah, absolutely fantastic. It
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Speaker 2: lives up to the hype to me. And especially, boy,
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Speaker 2: you sit there in the press box and you look
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Speaker 2: at that skyline and the Clemente Bridge and the whole
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Speaker 2: deal when you kind of look out from behind home plate.
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Speaker 2: That's just super cool. And it's, I don't know, for me,
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Speaker 2: it was easy to, well, the media entrance and everything,
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Speaker 2: very easy to access. Press box, very easy to access,
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Speaker 2: which is nice. Nothing too complicated. And then also, just
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Speaker 2: it seems like a very easy job park to me
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Speaker 2: to navigate as you're going around there and it's not
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Speaker 2: one of the things that stood out to me is
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Speaker 2: how they don't have a lot of tall seats in
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Speaker 2: the outfield so like that's and that's why you can
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Speaker 2: see the bridge and you can see the the downtown
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Speaker 2: skyline and everything like that but you know you're so
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Speaker 2: used to the outfield kind of being built up at
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Speaker 2: parks but that's just not the case there it's it's
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Speaker 2: very low and you can see right over it you
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Speaker 2: can see the river there so yeah really really cool
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Speaker 2: I think it definitely lives up and it was just
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Speaker 2: a beautiful I was 80 degrees sunny Not a chance
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Speaker 2: of rain, which is really nice. I know rain can
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Speaker 2: come out of nowhere in Pittsburgh sometimes. So we got
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Speaker 2: lucky with that, and it should be another good one tonight.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the press box looks like it's in the clouds.
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Speaker 3: That video that you shot us, Hunter, that is a
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Speaker 3: heck of a view of the ants on the field
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Speaker 3: and the beautiful skyline there as well. Getting to see Miz,
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Speaker 3: I know Adam mentioned to a couple of people in
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Speaker 3: the scrums last night after the game, how fitting was
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Speaker 3: it to see Miz on the bump on a day
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Speaker 3: where they were able to clinch?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Hear just how impressed everybody was and has been with
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Speaker 3: the season that he has had. Because Dilley said it
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Speaker 3: after the game, and he's spot on, you can have
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Speaker 3: a great team, and they do. They have a great
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Speaker 3: collection of players, but you need guys to have career years.
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Speaker 3: And somebody having the career year like him, it felt
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Speaker 3: pretty fitting that he was the.
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Speaker 1: Guy on the mound.
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Speaker 2: Definitely. Him having a career year on the pitching side,
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Speaker 2: Bowers having a career year on the offensive side, those
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Speaker 2: types of seasons you need in order to be where
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Speaker 2: they're at. And Miz, 1.89 ERA through 28 starts. I mean,
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Speaker 2: just exceptional when you look at that number. Another good
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Speaker 2: one last night. And again, he didn't feel like he
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Speaker 2: had his best stuff last night. And, you know, he was,
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Speaker 2: the good news is that velocity was there, you know,
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Speaker 2: near 104 a couple of times. So hitting 103. So that's,
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Speaker 2: that's really good to see. And that the last two
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Speaker 2: times that velocity has been there. Not that he needs
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Speaker 2: to blow people away with that because we saw him
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Speaker 2: maybe in the brave start, you know, That fastball wasn't
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Speaker 2: necessarily that high and he was able to navigate and
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Speaker 2: pitch really well, but it helps when you can blow
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Speaker 2: people away with one Oh three, one Oh four. It
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Speaker 2: just does. That's just, you know, and, and with the,
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Speaker 2: with what the movement he gets on his fastball and
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Speaker 2: everything like that, it made so much sense for him
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Speaker 2: to be on the mound last night for that, because
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Speaker 2: he's their ACE. He's the guy that's going to start
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Speaker 2: game one of a series. He's the guy that started
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Speaker 2: opening day. He is quickly become their best, uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: option in the starting rotation. And for, you know, one
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Speaker 2: of the best options in baseball is the starting rotation
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Speaker 2: and And so this is his second NL Central celebration,
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Speaker 2: and it was cool to see him kind of, you know,
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Speaker 2: it just, you could tell he had more experience, right?
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Speaker 2: It wasn't experiencing at all for the first time. And
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Speaker 2: a lot of these guys too, right? Lara was celebrating
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Speaker 2: for the first time last night, but a lot of
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Speaker 2: these guys are. are, and unfortunately Cooper Pratt was out
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Speaker 2: with illness. So unfortunately he could not participate in the celebration,
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Speaker 2: but you know, hopefully, yeah, hopefully he'll be able to
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Speaker 2: do so soon in the next celebration.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's a good opportunity for them to like bring
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Speaker 5: him the stroller or like they had to do that
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Speaker 5: with Jackson all those years and now he's a veteran.
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Speaker 5: So maybe somebody else will get the stroller.
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Speaker 1: They're all 21. Anything like that? I was going to say,
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Speaker 1: I think everyone's of age.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's of age.
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Speaker 3: Everyone was able to go to the club after.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's 21. They didn't have to leave anybody back.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The thing is I'm wondering like Cooper Pratt, if he's,
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Speaker 1: if he's ambulatory, he's got to be in the lineup
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Speaker 1: because everybody else is going to be hung over. And
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Speaker 1: then I'm wondering with Logan Henderson, did he partake last night?
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Speaker 1: Because a lot of times the starter will leave the
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Speaker 1: ballpark early to go get his proper 12 hours of
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Speaker 1: sleep and stuff. Did Logan Henderson partake yesterday? Was he
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Speaker 1: flying around? Because he's got an assignment today as they
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Speaker 1: continue to try to chase that number one seed.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: He was definitely tame. Logan Henderson was there, but he
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Speaker 2: was definitely tame. I don't think he was going too
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Speaker 2: crazy I mean that's his personality too but um it's
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Speaker 2: fun to kind of see how all the different personalities
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Speaker 2: come out in that thing you know you have the
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Speaker 2: the you know guys who are going to be rip-roaring
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Speaker 2: and having a great time and then kind of the
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Speaker 2: guys that watch and you know I you know Yelly
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Speaker 2: I've noticed the last couple years just kind of soaking
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Speaker 2: everything in you know Woody as well um you know
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Speaker 2: Woody taking a picture with Miz really cool and Woody
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Speaker 2: and Yelly and, uh, Mark Adonacio and taking a, taking
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Speaker 2: a picture there of the guys who have been here
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Speaker 2: since the beginning. Just really cool to see kind of
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Speaker 2: how the different guys react and the different pictures they take,
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Speaker 2: what means, what they want to do with that situation,
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Speaker 2: how much it means to them. Just really cool.
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Speaker 3: Now, when you start getting to, to feel the full
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Speaker 3: grasp of it and, and Brandon Woodruff is still in
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Speaker 3: the heat of, as he mentioned, his, his rehab back.
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Speaker 3: I love the fact that those two are still here.
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Speaker 3: They still got to take their picture together as they
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Speaker 3: did last night and celebrate together. Woody Longest, tenured brewer.
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Speaker 3: I know they mentioned it to him a tick last night.
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Speaker 3: He had said that he's daydreaming about getting that final
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Speaker 3: out of the World Series. Daydreaming about it. Could you
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Speaker 3: sense anything last night of... who could be maybe an
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Speaker 3: unsung guy. And if there was anything to, Hey man,
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Speaker 3: he is going to be back at some particular point.
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Speaker 3: Cause that would just be one of the greatest emotional
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Speaker 3: lifts you could ever get for a team.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that would be, that would be amazing. I mean, yeah, we'll,
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Speaker 2: we'll just see with him. I mean, it's like, Hey, it's,
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Speaker 2: it's not impossible, right? If you would add the surgery
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Speaker 2: would have been impossible. It's not impossible. And so that's,
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Speaker 2: that's the really cool part with Woody and we'll see.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that, that, that who knows what the, Modern technology.
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Speaker 2: You never know what, what, what Woody can do. I
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Speaker 2: do think, you know, as far as unsung heroes, a
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Speaker 2: guy who had two RBIs last night and a guy
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Speaker 2: who has completely, and I asked Murph about this too,
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Speaker 2: like a guy who has just completely turned around. It's
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Speaker 2: Joey Ortiz. I mean that he has been so key
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Speaker 2: to their second half success. And it just, it cannot
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Speaker 2: be overlooked just because of how he obviously struggled through
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Speaker 2: the first two and a half months of the season. And,
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Speaker 2: It's not like he was just like, oh yeah, he
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Speaker 2: was league average. No, he was well below hitting just
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Speaker 2: over 200. Now he's hitting about 300 for the better
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Speaker 2: part of the last three months. I mean, three months
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Speaker 2: ago today, Cooper Pratt made his debut and Joey Ortiz
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Speaker 2: since then has hit about 300 and has contributed whenever
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Speaker 2: he's been in there. And obviously the defense has not
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Speaker 2: missed a step either. And so when you have that
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Speaker 2: guy doing what he's doing, And then you add in
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Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt, who's been about a league average hitter since
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Speaker 2: he came in and obviously plays good defense, get what
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Speaker 2: you are, you know, have from Bryce to rang. And
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Speaker 2: then first base, Jake Bauer is having a career year
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Speaker 2: and Vaughn still hitting around 300. And we're in mid September,
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Speaker 2: like that infield. And then you talk about, Oh yeah.
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Speaker 2: And then you have cheerio in the outfield. Then you
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Speaker 2: have Mitchell in the outfield. Then you have Louise Lara,
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Speaker 2: what he's done since July 7th, when he came up
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Speaker 2: and Sal Freelick off the bench, like, That, that is,
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Speaker 2: that is why the brewers are where they are. They
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Speaker 2: are getting contributors top to bottom. There's not a place lineup.
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Speaker 2: And this is what I felt like when the season, uh,
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Speaker 2: was nearing its end last year in September, that there
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Speaker 2: was just not a hole in this lineup. Like you
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Speaker 2: could go one through nine and you could feel good
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Speaker 2: about whoever is at the plate. Um, and I think
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Speaker 2: maybe David Hamilton is the one guy who you feel
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Speaker 2: maybe a little less right now, but even he is contributing.
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Speaker 2: He's got the speed. Um, he's finding a way to
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Speaker 2: get on base some way, somehow, and then he can
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Speaker 2: wreak havoc when he's on base. I think he had
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Speaker 2: a stolen base last night. So even he is, you know,
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Speaker 2: when he comes off the bench, he can be a
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Speaker 2: huge weapon, especially maybe as a pinch runner in the playoffs,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. So they have just these guys that are
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Speaker 2: just all contributing top to bottom right now. And that
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Speaker 2: is what makes a complete team. And that's what can
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Speaker 2: take you far in the post season.
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Speaker 1: Interesting stuff. So Hunter, what does it look like now?
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Speaker 1: What were they saying? Billy and I were doing the math.
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Speaker 1: It looks like Miz will have one more start. Does
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Speaker 1: that sound about right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Cause they'll probably, yeah, I think so. And I mean,
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Speaker 2: maybe unless like if he started Monday, then you could
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Speaker 2: maybe start him or no, they don't play Monday. So no, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be one more start.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It'll be probably be one more start. Um, probably that
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Speaker 2: Tuesday game in Philly, I would think. And then they'll,
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Speaker 2: they'll taper them unless they give them like an inning
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Speaker 2: or something on that Sunday, just to, kind of you
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Speaker 2: know see see what they want to do because i'm
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Speaker 2: sure they're going to be manipulating next week hopefully the
16:11
Speaker 2: hope would be that you're you've clinched the one seed
16:13
Speaker 2: by that last series against st louis it's going to
16:15
Speaker 2: probably be harder to do that uh unless the dodgers
16:19
Speaker 2: and and you know it depends on the results obviously
16:21
Speaker 2: but it's probably going to be harder to do that
16:24
Speaker 2: uh depending on what the dodgers do just because you're
16:26
Speaker 2: only a couple of games up on them but You're
16:28
Speaker 2: looking good for the bye, obviously, and look, they only
16:31
Speaker 2: need four wins in their last 11 to set the
16:34
Speaker 2: franchise record. They only need six to get to 100.
16:37
Speaker 2: They're playing really good baseball right now, too, and everybody
16:40
Speaker 2: wants to... The whole thing, right, is you want to
16:43
Speaker 2: peak at the right time. Brewers really are playing well
16:46
Speaker 2: right now here with less than two weeks left in
16:48
Speaker 2: the season.
16:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of their key hitters are starting to
16:51
Speaker 3: swing the bat a little bit better in the last three,
16:53
Speaker 3: four weeks, if you look at it. We were also wondering...
16:58
Speaker 3: You think that they'll do any more of these before
16:59
Speaker 3: the playoffs? Is there a toast if they get to 100?
17:03
Speaker 3: Is there anything else?
17:04
Speaker 1: Clinch the number one? We just give a fist bump
17:07
Speaker 1: to each other in the locker room?
17:09
Speaker 2: Or what do we got?
17:10
Speaker 1: Clinching a bye isn't worth the champagne, Sully.
17:13
Speaker 4: No.
17:13
Speaker 1: But the 100 games, a nice toast. Maybe the one seed,
17:16
Speaker 1: we get a little add a baby.
17:18
Speaker 3: What do we got, Hunter? Are we just waiting until
17:20
Speaker 3: we clinch that DS series?
17:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, well, I think the champagne is done
17:24
Speaker 2: until the DS series, but I do, I do think
17:26
Speaker 2: there could be a little bit of a speech. I
17:29
Speaker 2: don't know if it's necessarily one that we are privy
17:31
Speaker 2: to or necessarily one that is a toast, but maybe
17:33
Speaker 2: it's Murph, you know, talking to the team and we
17:35
Speaker 2: get kind of the secondhand message from Murph and, and
17:38
Speaker 2: the players. But I think it, it, Look, if you're
17:41
Speaker 2: the best team in franchise history outdoing yourself from last year,
17:44
Speaker 2: I think that's something to celebrate and acknowledge at least.
17:48
Speaker 2: And 100 wins, I think, is the same thing. And look,
17:52
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just, again, I was just thinking about
17:54
Speaker 2: this last night and four straight division titles. Nobody's ever
17:57
Speaker 2: done it in the NL Central. And to lose what
18:01
Speaker 2: at that time was considered the best manager in baseball.
18:05
Speaker 2: And the executive that kind of built the first part
18:08
Speaker 2: of this run in David Stearns. And then last night
18:12
Speaker 2: you clinch and the Mets crowd is chanting Fire Stearns.
18:16
Speaker 2: And the Cubs blow a lead late. Like, I just,
18:20
Speaker 2: it's unbelievable the way this has turned. And quite impressive
18:25
Speaker 2: how the Brewers just did not miss any beat. And
18:28
Speaker 2: for the third straight year without those guys, Murph and
18:32
Speaker 2: Arnold just... took it to them again. And it's not
18:36
Speaker 2: like they're just winning these divisions by a game or two.
18:40
Speaker 2: They're coming out there and they're winning this division by
18:42
Speaker 2: like 10 games. And it's just, it's incredible. It's, it's
18:45
Speaker 2: just absolutely incredible what the Brewers have not missed a
18:49
Speaker 2: beat on how, how they obviously got it right with
18:51
Speaker 2: Pat Murphy, uh, as the manager to after council, um,
18:56
Speaker 2: and the way Matt Arnold and that staff has put
18:58
Speaker 2: together guys who play Murph style of baseball and are
19:01
Speaker 2: okay with whatever Murph's style of baseball is, and then
19:05
Speaker 2: are contributing top to bottom throughout the 162-game season and
19:08
Speaker 2: into the playoffs. Amazing what this organization continues to do.
19:12
Speaker 1: Well said, Hunter.
19:12
Speaker 4: Yeah.
19:13
Speaker 1: Well said. Hunter, enjoy yourself. Have you found a good
19:16
Speaker 1: lunch spot there? You're becoming a resident of Pittsburgh. I'm
19:19
Speaker 1: glad they clinched in that you were there to cover
19:21
Speaker 1: it for us, but I almost wish you were going
19:23
Speaker 1: on to Baltimore so you could see that park, too.
19:24
Speaker 1: It's fabulous. That's a spot to see. It's a great
19:26
Speaker 1: press box.
19:27
Speaker 2: It does look like it. does look like a cool spot.
19:29
Speaker 1: Favorite.
19:29
Speaker 4: Yeah.
19:29
Speaker 2: And then we've got, we got the pregame show at
19:32
Speaker 2: four 30, uh, four 30. I, my, my time zones
19:35
Speaker 2: are all mixed up, but four 30 central time, uh,
19:37
Speaker 2: coming up today. And we'll do that here from Pittsburgh. Uh,
19:40
Speaker 2: you'll hear from the pregame comments of Pat Murphy. We'll,
19:43
Speaker 2: spin through as well some of the sound from the
19:48
Speaker 2: clinch as well, but 4.30 with the pregame show from Pittsburgh.
19:51
Speaker 1: Outstanding. Now that's playing the hits. Outstanding. Hunter, go get
19:54
Speaker 1: yourself a nap, get a nice lunch, and be back
19:57
Speaker 1: at it. We'll be listening to the pregame show tonight.
19:59
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.
20:00
Speaker 2: Thanks, man. Thank you, guys. You bet.
20:02
Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart provided our boots on the ground. Great work.
20:05
Speaker 3: Not going to go have a bunch of pierogies here
20:07
Speaker 3: for the for lunch. But if there was a city
20:12
Speaker 3: to soak up some booze from last night, may you
20:15
Speaker 3: throw some coleslaw and some fries on one of them sandwiches?
20:18
Speaker 1: Oh, they got starches, man. You kidding me?
20:20
Speaker 3: They're going to be able to soak up some of
20:22
Speaker 3: that booze from last night. They'll be okay.
20:25
Speaker 1: So good. Amazing. When we come back, Bill Schroeder is
20:28
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20:58
Speaker 1: have FOMO? Like the rest of us would have been
21:00
Speaker 1: nice to been in that clubhouse with the champagne spraying, right?
21:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, but, you know, Kate was pouring champagne over my
21:06
Speaker 4: head in my house last night. So, you know, I
21:09
Speaker 4: guess it's all good. You know, she did– actually, it
21:12
Speaker 4: was in the garage. She didn't want to get the
21:13
Speaker 4: carpet wet. Right. But what a great night. What a
21:17
Speaker 4: great night. It's funny, you know, the guys were just
21:19
Speaker 4: sitting there. You know, I watched the end of the
21:21
Speaker 4: Brewer game. Then I flipped over to the Cub game
21:23
Speaker 4: and I saw Baldwin hit that home run. And, man,
21:26
Speaker 4: you know, exciting times. You know, Pittsburgh. And, you know,
21:31
Speaker 4: I tell you, I'm so happy for these guys, Pat
21:34
Speaker 4: Murphy and Matt Arnold and the entire organization. I mean,
21:38
Speaker 4: what they have done is historic. I mean, no team
21:40
Speaker 4: has ever won four straight Central Division championships, and the
21:45
Speaker 4: Brewers can say they've done that.
21:46
Speaker 1: It's so funny because B.A. wasn't in Pittsburgh for the clinch,
21:49
Speaker 1: but he was there for the clinch because he was
21:51
Speaker 1: in the booth calling the Braves and Cubs. So he
21:54
Speaker 1: was actually there for the actual clinch.
21:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, right. Well, I'll tell you, it's like now the
22:00
Speaker 4: Brewers need to keep winning. I know that's a Pat
22:03
Speaker 4: Murphy thing where he's not going to take the foot
22:06
Speaker 4: off the gas. I mean, they have a two-game lead
22:08
Speaker 4: over the Dodgers for home field throughout the playoffs, and
22:13
Speaker 4: that's huge. I mean, I think that that's another goal. So,
22:16
Speaker 4: They've knocked off two of the three goals to get
22:19
Speaker 4: into the postseason, so they've got one more enough to
22:21
Speaker 4: get that home field. I was kind of bummed. Me
22:25
Speaker 4: and B.A., we've been at this a long time. It
22:27
Speaker 4: would have been good for he and I to be
22:29
Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh, but that's kind of the way it goes.
22:33
Speaker 4: Nobody roots more for the Brewers than me and Brian,
22:36
Speaker 4: so it's good that they're able to do that.
22:39
Speaker 3: Rock, it would be so unfair to compare and ask
22:43
Speaker 3: you to compare and contrast all the different ones, but
22:45
Speaker 3: When you guys were waiting in that tunnel in 08,
22:48
Speaker 3: waiting for the final out to go and the celebration
22:51
Speaker 3: to clinch, then fast forward almost 20 years and it's
22:54
Speaker 3: become just commonplace. Can you put into perspective just the
22:58
Speaker 3: changes in the organization you've seen? I mean, you've seen
23:01
Speaker 3: all of it from the 106th loss season that they
23:05
Speaker 3: still haven't hung the banner, as Drew mentioned.
23:07
Speaker 1: Maybe when they win 100, they'll.
23:08
Speaker 4: Put that one up.
23:10
Speaker 2: You've seen such a.
23:11
Speaker 3: Shift in the organization, and now this is common, and
23:14
Speaker 3: kids that are teenagers right now know nothing different.
23:17
Speaker 4: I remember, I forget what year it was. I think
23:20
Speaker 4: it was a couple years or a year before the
23:22
Speaker 4: Brewers actually went to the postseason where they clinched a.
23:24
Speaker 4: 500 record for the first time, and that was in Pittsburgh, actually.
23:29
Speaker 4: And I remember that was an emotional thing. They won
23:31
Speaker 4: the first of a three-game series in Pittsburgh. guaranteed a
23:36
Speaker 4: 500 record, and then they lost the next two. Unfortunately,
23:39
Speaker 4: weren't able to get that winning record, but things have
23:41
Speaker 4: changed dramatically. You know, it all started with Doug Melvin
23:44
Speaker 4: and the CC Sabathia trade and, you know, David Stearns
23:48
Speaker 4: and now Matt Arnold. These guys, I mean, it's amazing
23:50
Speaker 4: what they're able to do on a shoestring budget. And,
23:54
Speaker 4: you know, it's unprecedented. I mean, you know, just because
23:58
Speaker 4: you have money doesn't mean you're going to win games,
23:59
Speaker 4: but You know, the process and the program that these
24:04
Speaker 4: guys have put together has been incredible. And you think
24:07
Speaker 4: about it, you know, what the Brewers have done so
24:09
Speaker 4: far this year with one of the youngest teams in
24:12
Speaker 4: the big leagues. You have to really be encouraged, not
24:16
Speaker 4: just for this year, but, you know, going forward. It's
24:18
Speaker 4: going to be a lot of fun.
24:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're going to be good for a while. Bill Schroeder,
24:21
Speaker 1: Brewers TV, joining us here in the huddle. Rock, my
24:24
Speaker 1: favorite picture last night of all the montages and all
24:27
Speaker 1: the pictures was Woody and Yellich kind of enjoying it together,
24:31
Speaker 1: the original, the OGs. And I was telling the boys earlier,
24:34
Speaker 1: this run that the Brewers are on, I'm calling it
24:36
Speaker 1: the Yellich era since 2018 when he arrived and won
24:39
Speaker 1: the MVP. It has been the golden age of Brewers baseball,
24:42
Speaker 1: no question.
24:44
Speaker 4: No kidding, what is it, seven out of eight years
24:46
Speaker 4: in the pro season? I think that's what it is,
24:48
Speaker 4: and four straight division titles, and you know, it's, you know,
24:51
Speaker 4: he still is the guy, you know, Woody has a lot,
24:54
Speaker 4: you know, he's a big leader in that clubhouse with
24:56
Speaker 4: those pitching staff. And it's really unfortunate that he's not
25:00
Speaker 4: able to be out on the mound. Good news that
25:02
Speaker 4: he's not going to have surgery and he's going to
25:04
Speaker 4: try and rehab and get back at some point. But,
25:07
Speaker 4: you know, Christian, you know, he's come up with big
25:09
Speaker 4: hits recently, you know, so, you know, you're talking about
25:12
Speaker 4: two of the pillars that, you know, Pat Murphy likes
25:14
Speaker 4: to call them the two pillars of that organization and
25:16
Speaker 4: that team. And, They have a lot to say about
25:19
Speaker 4: what goes on and the culture and the climate. You know,
25:22
Speaker 4: guys coming over. I mean, those are the two guys
25:25
Speaker 4: that welcome on open arms, the young kids that are
25:27
Speaker 4: coming up. And, yeah, good to see it. Good to
25:30
Speaker 4: see how all these guys have been really enjoying what's
25:33
Speaker 4: been going on. I mean, it was kind of a
25:35
Speaker 4: foregone conclusion that they were going to win the division.
25:38
Speaker 4: They had that big lead. But it was kind of
25:41
Speaker 4: funny in the way that, you know, everything was really
25:44
Speaker 4: quiet in that clubhouse. You know, I watched that. postgame
25:47
Speaker 4: show to the end, which incidentally, I think, you know,
25:50
Speaker 4: Dillard and Levering did a heck of a job, you know,
25:53
Speaker 4: filling time and doing that postgame job. I thought that
25:56
Speaker 4: they were fantastic. And then Sophia doing what she's doing.
25:59
Speaker 4: I mean, in that clubhouse getting drenched every two seconds.
26:02
Speaker 4: So I thought that that coverage was fantastic, you know,
26:06
Speaker 4: from the guys in the truck, you know, and it
26:09
Speaker 4: just really, it really showed you, The commitment that everybody
26:14
Speaker 4: in this organization has put forth. It's been so much fun.
26:19
Speaker 4: We've all been so blessed to be able to watch
26:20
Speaker 4: this team over the years. I think this might be
26:23
Speaker 4: the year that they get over the top.
26:26
Speaker 3: Hat tip to Brewers TV because this year in the
26:29
Speaker 3: inaugural maiden voyage for you guys, it's been an incredible product.
26:35
Speaker 3: It's been really, really good to be able to see. Now, Rock,
26:37
Speaker 3: as you mentioned, it feels maybe a little different. It
26:41
Speaker 3: feels like at this point in the last three to
26:42
Speaker 3: four years, this is when somebody would be announced to
26:45
Speaker 3: be out for the playoffs. This would be the time
26:47
Speaker 3: that you find out of a debilitating injury or somebody
26:50
Speaker 3: goes on a terrible run. Instead, Yelich has hit nearly
26:54
Speaker 3: 300 in the last 30 days. Feels like they're starting
26:56
Speaker 3: to maybe get hot at the right time. Am I
26:59
Speaker 3: just got too many brewer-colored glasses on here?
27:02
Speaker 2: Does it feel like they're.
27:03
Speaker 1: Starting to peak a little bit?
27:04
Speaker 4: Everybody's hitting right, right now. I mean, I really, I mean,
27:09
Speaker 4: tell me, show me a guy that's really not been
27:10
Speaker 4: swinging the bat. Well, I'll tell you who I really
27:12
Speaker 4: feel good for is Joey Ortiz. I know how great
27:15
Speaker 4: he has been since the beginning of July. I mean,
27:18
Speaker 4: you know, you got Contreras is swinging the bat. You
27:20
Speaker 4: got to rank. All these guys have been, been on
27:23
Speaker 4: a heater right now. And you think about, you know,
27:25
Speaker 4: Garrett Mitchell, what, you know, finally he's been able to
27:28
Speaker 4: stay healthy. And this is what the, this is the
27:30
Speaker 4: production that the Brewers had anticipated. If he's able to
27:33
Speaker 4: stay healthy, cheerio and, I'd say a Laura. I mean,
27:36
Speaker 4: this guy has really burst onto the scene. Has any
27:38
Speaker 4: big hits and, you know, one of the best outfielders
27:41
Speaker 4: in the big leagues. It's been a lot of fun
27:43
Speaker 4: to watch. But, yeah, I think that this is a
27:46
Speaker 4: special group of guys, you know, led by, you know,
27:51
Speaker 4: Pat Murphy and the way he's able to, you know,
27:53
Speaker 4: get these guys on the same page. And, you know,
27:56
Speaker 4: he's not afraid to give them a hard time and
27:59
Speaker 4: he's not afraid to pat them on the back, too.
28:01
Speaker 4: So it's just kind of a tough love with Murphy.
28:04
Speaker 4: at times, but it seems to be working.
28:07
Speaker 1: The game last night, Rock, was just such a quintessential
28:10
Speaker 1: Brewers game. Like, had they not had the outburst in
28:13
Speaker 1: the sixth, Miz probably would have pitched another, maybe another inning,
28:16
Speaker 1: but the small market rally, they dodged a bullet when
28:20
Speaker 1: the Pirates kind of ran into, ran themselves out of
28:23
Speaker 1: a bases loaded situation.
28:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, right.
28:26
Speaker 1: You know, just, And then the bullpen, he replaced Miz
28:29
Speaker 1: and here comes like Ashby and Hawthorne wicked stuff. And
28:33
Speaker 1: then McGill closing it out. It's like, that was like
28:35
Speaker 1: the blueprint, wasn't it? That felt like if you could
28:38
Speaker 1: almost put that in a time capsule and say, this
28:39
Speaker 1: is what the, how the Brewers played in 2026.
28:41
Speaker 2: Yeah.
28:41
Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question. Did your heart stop
28:45
Speaker 4: for a minute when the trainers came out and looked
28:47
Speaker 4: at Mizorowski?
28:48
Speaker 5: Yes.
28:48
Speaker 4: It was something in his eye, but I'm thinking, oh
28:51
Speaker 4: my goodness, please don't have him get hurt here. So,
28:55
Speaker 4: you know, So when they were putting the stuff in
28:58
Speaker 4: his eyes, I said, thank goodness that he's okay. But,
29:02
Speaker 4: you know, the starting rotation, I mean, you've got Logan Henderson.
29:06
Speaker 4: He's really stepped up and drawn and, you know, those
29:10
Speaker 4: kind of guys. So, you know, the bullpen has been fantastic.
29:12
Speaker 4: Now tell me, I think Aaron Ashby has pitched in
29:15
Speaker 4: like half the games this year, hasn't he? I mean,
29:17
Speaker 4: this guy, if they're missing some time with that shoulder problem,
29:21
Speaker 4: I mean, the guy has been incredible. He pitched two
29:23
Speaker 4: good innings yesterday and They rebate back. Pitching has been
29:30
Speaker 4: the reason why the Brewers have the best record in
29:32
Speaker 4: the big leagues. Offense comes and goes. Defense has to
29:35
Speaker 4: be there every day. Pitching has to be there every day.
29:38
Speaker 4: And it pretty much has. Tell me what better infield
29:42
Speaker 4: there is in all of baseball. I don't think you
29:44
Speaker 4: can find one right now. You know, when you got,
29:46
Speaker 4: you know, Pratt over there and you got Ortiz and
29:48
Speaker 4: Bowers and Terang. I mean, it's been, it's been a
29:51
Speaker 4: lot of fun to watch these guys. They can score
29:54
Speaker 4: a lot of runs, but then they can win a
29:55
Speaker 4: two to one game as well. Yeah.
29:57
Speaker 1: Oh, As for Ashby, yes, he pitched his 71st game
30:00
Speaker 1: last night. In 83 innings, he's got 111 strikeouts.
30:05
Speaker 4: I mean, nasty. I mean, that curveball he throws, I
30:07
Speaker 4: don't know how anybody hits it. I mean, it's just
30:09
Speaker 4: got to be the best curveball in the big leagues.
30:11
Speaker 4: If not, it's up there. It's a snap dragon. They
30:14
Speaker 4: call it the Uncle Charlie. You know, it's not the–
30:18
Speaker 4: it's the Lord Charles curveball, if you will.
30:21
Speaker 2: So, great stuff.
30:22
Speaker 4: I love that. I mean, you can't look for it
30:25
Speaker 4: because you can't hit it anyway. But, you know, bullpen
30:29
Speaker 4: has been fantastic. And, you know, you can't give Matt
30:33
Speaker 4: Orwell or Mark Ananagio, the way they've been able to
30:36
Speaker 4: manage this organization over the years has been brilliant.
30:39
Speaker 1: It's been amazing. Well, Rock, I know you're going to
30:40
Speaker 1: be back in the chair at Citizens Bank Park next week.
30:44
Speaker 4: Yeah.
30:45
Speaker 1: And then for the final.
30:46
Speaker 4: Yeah.
30:46
Speaker 1: So you got the final six, right?
30:48
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:50
Speaker 4: Yep, I do. I'm going to Philly.
30:52
Speaker 1: I don't know if there'll be a champagne, Sully, but
30:53
Speaker 1: you might be in a chair when the Brewers clinch
30:57
Speaker 1: the number one overall seed or the first round buy,
30:59
Speaker 1: which would be good, and 100 wins. You could be
31:01
Speaker 1: in the seat for all those. What do you think
31:03
Speaker 1: those mean? Those are the only goals left now is
31:05
Speaker 1: to get a buy, finish with the number one seed,
31:08
Speaker 1: and see if maybe they can put 100 wins up
31:10
Speaker 1: for the first time in franchise history. Those are all things, Robert,
31:14
Speaker 1: you mentioned in 2005 when they were celebrating not having
31:17
Speaker 1: a losing season.
31:19
Speaker 4: Is that what it was, 05?
31:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
31:22
Speaker 4: I remember I had tears in my eyes after that
31:24
Speaker 4: game when they guaranteed themselves a 500 season. I mean,
31:28
Speaker 4: that's how rough that stretch was with the Brewers, which
31:33
Speaker 4: for me and a lot of Brewer fans, it makes
31:36
Speaker 4: this so special the way they have been able to
31:38
Speaker 4: play because We went through some really tough times with
31:41
Speaker 4: this organization, and now you flip it around and it's
31:45
Speaker 4: seven of eight years in the playoffs. But, yeah, I
31:48
Speaker 4: think that all those goals are good. I think they've
31:52
Speaker 4: reached a couple of them already, but I think the
31:54
Speaker 4: ultimate goal for these guys is to win a World Series. First,
31:58
Speaker 4: get in the World Series, beat the Dodgers, and get
32:03
Speaker 4: into the World Series and win a World Series. I
32:04
Speaker 4: think anything less than that, I think for this group,
32:07
Speaker 4: is going to be a disappointment.
32:10
Speaker 3: That's how most Brewers fans are going to feel, and frankly,
32:13
Speaker 3: they've earned the right to have those kind of prognostications
32:19
Speaker 3: and expectations.
32:20
Speaker 4: By the same token, don't dwell on what's coming up
32:23
Speaker 4: in the future. Don't dwell on, well, let's see what
32:26
Speaker 4: they do here. Let's enjoy what these guys have been
32:28
Speaker 4: able to accomplish as such a young group of guys.
32:31
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got a 21-year-old, 22-year-old, you've got a
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Speaker 4: young pitching staff, and this is just the beginning for
32:37
Speaker 4: these guys, I believe.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you there. It's been, what a ride, what
32:42
Speaker 1: a ride.
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Speaker 3: Incredible.
32:43
Speaker 1: Miz will have, like, one more start, and he's got
32:45
Speaker 1: a chance to pass, well, Higuera and, like, move into
32:49
Speaker 1: the single-season strikeout standings. He's going to be charging up there,
32:55
Speaker 1: rocking it. We were saying it's kind of fitting that
32:57
Speaker 1: he pitched last night to see him because the Cy
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Speaker 1: Young guy was on the mound for the clincher.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, 15 wins in the season. I mean, that speaks
33:06
Speaker 4: for itself. I mean, if he doesn't win the Cy
33:08
Speaker 4: Young Award, I'm not quite sure, you know, why. I mean,
33:11
Speaker 4: you've got to have an investigation there. I mean, there
33:14
Speaker 4: hasn't been a more dominant pitcher in all of baseball
33:16
Speaker 4: than Jacob Mizorowski. So I think that, you know, one
33:20
Speaker 4: more start. You know, I think that for me, I
33:23
Speaker 4: think he's clinched that Cy Young Award. I mean, I
33:25
Speaker 4: can't imagine anybody else passing him right now. So we'll
33:30
Speaker 4: see how it goes. But Pittsburgh has given the Brewers
33:33
Speaker 4: a lot of trouble this year, and it's kind of
33:35
Speaker 4: fitting that they would be celebrating in Pittsburgh against the Pirates,
33:39
Speaker 4: who have been giving them some trouble this year. So
33:42
Speaker 4: they still have two more games with the Pirates, and
33:45
Speaker 4: then they've got to go into Baltimore and then Philadelphia.
33:47
Speaker 4: They've got a lot of boxes to check still.
33:50
Speaker 3: So how hard is it for the boys to get
33:52
Speaker 3: up here for the game here today, or do they
33:54
Speaker 3: just go and eat as many pierogies And Hermione's Brothers
33:58
Speaker 3: Sandwiches is possible to soak some of.
33:59
Speaker 1: That up from last night, right?
34:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Well, yeah, Drew and I, we have
34:03
Speaker 4: a story about the Hermione's Brothers Sandwiches. I'd rather not
34:09
Speaker 4: share on the air. I think I've told that in confidence.
34:12
Speaker 4: But anyway, it's a great sandwich, but it's tough to
34:17
Speaker 4: process at times. But anyway. In every way.
34:26
Speaker 2: The bridge is long.
34:27
Speaker 4: All right. Yes. What was the question? I forget the question.
34:32
Speaker 3: Good food, good place to try to cure a hangover.
34:36
Speaker 1: There's a lot of carbs in that city. That's right.
34:39
Speaker 4: I think you're asking, I mean, is it tough for
34:40
Speaker 4: these guys to get up for games? I mean, they're 21,
34:43
Speaker 4: 22 years old. Yeah, that's a beer, right? So, anyway,
34:47
Speaker 4: it's going to be interesting. I think Murph's going to
34:49
Speaker 4: keep these guys going. I mean, I don't think there's
34:52
Speaker 4: any chance that he's going to take the foot off
34:54
Speaker 4: the gas. That's just not in his nature. Uh, and
34:58
Speaker 4: he wants to keep winning games. And I think that
35:00
Speaker 4: they want to get that home field advantage throughout the
35:02
Speaker 4: post season.
35:03
Speaker 1: If they play a hangover game today and throw the
35:04
Speaker 1: ball around and have some, a bunch of bad at
35:06
Speaker 1: bats and stuff, he's going to have the ass. Oh,
35:08
Speaker 1: he's going to have him running. Yeah.
35:11
Speaker 4: But you know what, but you know what, you can
35:13
Speaker 4: understand why it might happen. So they deserve their night
35:16
Speaker 4: last night and we'll see how it goes tonight.
35:18
Speaker 1: That's why Cooper Pratchett lead off tonight because he's the
35:21
Speaker 1: guy who wasn't there. He was sick and, Now he's
35:24
Speaker 1: in the hotel room. He's the one guy who's sober.
35:26
Speaker 1: He had the real illness. We need him to go
35:28
Speaker 1: three for four tonight.
35:29
Speaker 4: I remember Treblehorn one game at the end of the
35:33
Speaker 4: season in Baltimore put everybody's name in the hat. They
35:37
Speaker 4: played their position, but that's the batting order in which they...
35:40
Speaker 4: As he pulled the names out of the hat. You
35:42
Speaker 4: remember that, Drew? He did that in Baltimore. We'll see
35:46
Speaker 4: how it goes.
35:47
Speaker 1: Hey, some of the best nights when the Brewers weren't
35:49
Speaker 1: good were after the annual team party on the road
35:51
Speaker 1: when everybody was hungover. Those might be some of the
35:53
Speaker 1: best games they played.
35:55
Speaker 2: Show and go.
35:55
Speaker 4: Yep. Yeah, it's amazing how just getting through the game,
35:59
Speaker 4: you have some of your best games. Just get through
36:02
Speaker 4: these nine innings because I'm not feeling that great. I
36:05
Speaker 4: think Mert's going to have them playing good today.
36:08
Speaker 1: It's going to be awesome. Rock, thanks for joining us.
36:10
Speaker 1: Look forward to next week when you're in the chair
36:12
Speaker 1: in Philly, heading home, enjoying time with the fam and
36:15
Speaker 1: going to that fine park and then closing it up.
36:18
Speaker 1: It's going to be a blast. Thanks for joining us, bud.
36:21
Speaker 4: Thanks, guys. Thanks for having me, and this team has
36:23
Speaker 4: been magical this year. It's been a lot of great moments,
36:26
Speaker 4: and it's just the beginning, I believe.
36:28
Speaker 1: More to come. Thanks, bud.
36:31
Speaker 4: All right, guys. Thanks.
36:32
Speaker 1: Bill Schroeder, Brewers TV, joining us here on the program.
36:35
Speaker 1: What good stuff. I love it. Kate poured champagne on
36:39
Speaker 1: his head in the garage. Keep the carpet clean.
36:41
Speaker 5: You're not saying that the Pirates is a sneaky good
36:43
Speaker 5: bet today, are you, Billy? Is that what you're saying?
36:45
Speaker 3: Pottawatomie Sportsbook, that might be an interesting one right now.
36:48
Speaker 1: That would be an interesting one. Plus 112. Speaking of
36:51
Speaker 1: Pottawatomie Sportsbook, make your plans now to hang out with us.
36:55
Speaker 1: The Huddle, Thursday Night Huddle, live from Pottawatomie Sportsbook in
36:58
Speaker 1: the Annex. We'll be doing it from 5 to 7
37:01
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Make your investments on the Brewers. There's a
37:03
Speaker 1: Brewers day game on Thursday, so you can maybe get
37:06
Speaker 1: there early. I was going to say, pregame and join
37:09
Speaker 1: us at 5. Leading into Bill's Lions on Thursday night football,
37:12
Speaker 1: which is a pretty good tilt as well. Hey, man,
37:15
Speaker 1: we're going to be back to close up shop already.
37:17
Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Closing up
37:20
Speaker 1: shop on a Wednesday. Hot take hump day. Big, big
37:24
Speaker 1: Brewers day. Victory Wednesday. Tomorrow we'll be on to.
37:29
Speaker 1: Trying to get a buy, trying to get the best
37:31
Speaker 1: overall record, trying to get to 100, and working our
37:34
Speaker 1: way towards Packers and Jets. J-E-T-S. Jets, Jets, Jets.
37:39
Speaker 3: Ooh, the Green Bay Packers are now just a 3.5-point
37:42
Speaker 3: favorite over at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. That line has moved from,
37:45
Speaker 3: I believe they opened at 4.5-point favorites over the Jets.
37:49
Speaker 3: Interesting game. A lot of people nationally, Drew, watching that film,
37:53
Speaker 3: watching that All-22 game. Moore came away impressed with the J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets,
37:58
Speaker 3: and how Aaron Glenn's squad performed in game one of
38:01
Speaker 3: his second season. So there's a lot to it, a
38:05
Speaker 3: lot of news, and the little bit of news yesterday
38:07
Speaker 3: that we necessarily didn't talk about in terms of the
38:10
Speaker 3: Packers was the Josh Jacobs situation that is going to
38:15
Speaker 3: be as sealed as possible because the former ex-girlfriend, or
38:19
Speaker 3: the ex-girlfriend, and Victim in the case identifies that she
38:25
Speaker 3: wants the video fully sealed and does not want it
38:29
Speaker 3: for her own protection. That might, again, expedite this process
38:32
Speaker 3: of when we see Josh Jacobs onto the field sooner
38:36
Speaker 3: rather than later, maybe.
38:37
Speaker 1: That very well could be. That's an interesting development. I mean, listen, they...
38:43
Speaker 1: They need somebody drew.
38:44
Speaker 3: And as bad as it sounds, I know the offensive
38:47
Speaker 3: line is what everybody was eyeing up and watching yesterday.
38:50
Speaker 3: And Adam Stenovich was asking, answering questions about during coordinator conversation,
38:54
Speaker 3: but they did have on the few plays that they
38:58
Speaker 3: had blocked up. Well, they had some holes to be
39:01
Speaker 3: able to. to run through, and I think Josh Jacobs
39:04
Speaker 3: is going to make a difference once he's in that
39:05
Speaker 3: backfield to at least alleviate some of the problems that
39:08
Speaker 3: this offensive line has had. But, make no mistake about it,
39:11
Speaker 3: they've got to get a hell of a lot better.
39:12
Speaker 3: I think they've got to stick to the run a
39:14
Speaker 3: bit more.
39:14
Speaker 1: That's just my opinion.
39:15
Speaker 5: I know it's hard to say that when it's not working,
39:18
Speaker 5: and you're like, well, we have to move the ball
39:19
Speaker 5: and try and win this game, but you'd think that
39:22
Speaker 5: would pay dividends at some point. Maybe see Caleb at
39:24
Speaker 5: some point run the ball. I'm not really sure.
39:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe.
39:27
Speaker 4: Yeah.
39:28
Speaker 5: Maybe.
39:28
Speaker 1: If you think so.
39:29
Speaker 3: I would like to see him running the football and
39:31
Speaker 3: not returning kicks, but that's just me.
39:34
Speaker 1: We mentioned that we're going to be at Pottawatomie Sportsbook
39:37
Speaker 1: in the Annex coming up on Thursday for Thursday Night Live.
39:40
Speaker 1: Five to seven, leading into Thursday Night Football. Great game
39:42
Speaker 1: this week with the Lions and Bills, and you can
39:44
Speaker 1: make your investments on the Brewers if you'd like.
39:46
Speaker 4: Yeah.
39:47
Speaker 3: And I mean, if you're, if you're walking up to
39:48
Speaker 3: the Pottawatomie sports book on Thursday night, are you not
39:52
Speaker 3: taking the bills opening up that brand new stadium? Beautiful,
39:56
Speaker 3: shiny new stadium. I already had that pick ready for
39:59
Speaker 3: my own personal pick. Well, in a minus two 35
40:02
Speaker 3: money line, that's an arm and sorry.
40:03
Speaker 4: And bet.
40:03
Speaker 1: If I've ever seen one right there, I don't know
40:05
Speaker 1: about that.
40:05
Speaker 4: See, I know.
40:06
Speaker 1: Oh, you're laying the points.
40:07
Speaker 2: I might take the points. I mean, come on.
40:09
Speaker 1: We're there to play a little bit.
40:10
Speaker 5: Aren't we?
40:11
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not taking Ms. Minus 10,000 for the
40:13
Speaker 1: Cy Young either. Who's got $ 10? Who wants to win
40:17
Speaker 1: a dime?
40:18
Speaker 3: Well, if you got $ 10 and you want to try
40:20
Speaker 3: to take a stab at winning $ 250.
40:22
Speaker 1: Brewers and Red Sox World Series. I like that.
40:26
Speaker 3: The Caleb Durbin Kyle Harrison Bowl for a seven gamer.
40:29
Speaker 3: That little $ 10 investment could turn into $ 250. Sign me up.
40:32
Speaker 1: Sign me up. Thanks to Bill Schroeder. Thanks to Hunter Baumgart,
40:36
Speaker 1: our current electric superhero of the day, for providing us
40:39
Speaker 1: with all that good stuff today. Videos and checking out
40:42
Speaker 1: his socials. It's been wonderful. Back at it tomorrow. Tomorrow
40:46
Speaker 1: will be a more normal day. First half of a doubleheader.
40:49
Speaker 1: 5 o'clock clubbers hope to see you at Pato as well.
40:51
Speaker 1: See you at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.
40:53
Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
40:53
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out with us. This has been The Huddle.
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Speaker 4: Peace!